Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know®

A carbon tax is a tax on the carbon content of hydrocarbon fuels or on the carbon dioxide emitted by those fuels when they are converted into energy. Hydrocarbons fuels—such as coal, oil, and natural gas—contain carbon, which turns into carbon dioxide after combustion. In economics, the total economic harm caused by a pollutant such as carbon dioxi

The cap-and-trade system is designed to achieve a comparable target level of overall economy-wide emissions reductions as the other pollution-reduction strategies while (1) rewarding the companies that are the most innovative or efficient at cutting pollution and (2) making certain that the target level of emissions is achieved at the least possibl

concurrently to reduce ocean acidification.

A key point is that the investment is not the same as the net economic cost, because many of the investments reduce energy consumption and thus generate savings. In addition, investment in new technology is generally associated with higher productivity and economic growth.

couple of decades ago, few people imagined that the most consequential near-term impacts of climate change on large parts of both the United States and Canada would be the warming-driven population explosion of a tiny pest, the tree-destroying bark beetle. Only through a comprehensive and ongoing

The second category focuses on regulatory policies aimed at either increasing the use of clean energy or reducing the emissions of GHGs.

you are not removing net carbon dioxide from the air with carbon capture and storage at a coal plant; you are just not adding new carbon dioxide into the air).

Globally, the GHG emissions from producing beef is on average more than a hundred times greater than those of soy products per unit of protein.

reflectors or mirrors in outer space. However, “the Committee has chosen to not consider these technologies because of the substantial time (>20 years), cost (trillions of dollars), and technology challenges associated with these issues.

meat, fish, and egg consumption is no more than 90 grams per capita a day, the